Some big news in the scientific world. There has been a breakthrough in nuclear fusion research: successful ignition. Basically it means achieving fusion with a positive net energy output. Its the first time someone succeeded.
Unfortunately, this fusion ignition breakthrough happened in the US. This would give the US an early lead in nuclear fusion technology. Interestingly, they achieved fusion ignition by using a method of Inertial Confinement Fusion, i.e.: using lasers to compress the fusion fuel. Currently, the most popular method is by using Thermonuclear Fusion in a Tokamak device. China, like everybody else is heavily invested in the Tokamak method, and thus far, no Tokamaks had ever achieved ignition despite all the money and research being poured into them.
I'm quite confident that there should be ethnic Chinese scientists involved in that US fusion project. China should try to get some of those scientists to catchup in the fusion race. If the US is the sole owner of fusion technology that works. They will definitely work to monopolize fusion energy, and also seek to weaponize it in whatever way they can figure out.